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A Companion to Ancient Philosophy: Rereading Ancient Philosophy

Editat de Sean D. Kirkland, Eric Sanday Contribuţii de John Russon, Drew Hyland, Phil Hopkins, Francisco Gonzalez, Damian Stocking, Claudia Baracchi, Walter Brogan, George Harvey, Marjolein Oele, Ömer Aygün, Greg Recco, John McCumber, Eve Rabinoff, Patricia Fagan, Pascal Massie, Gina Zavota, Michael Wiitala, Robert Metcalf, Rose Cherubin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2018
A Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of essays on a broad range of themes and figures spanning the entire period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers. 

Rather than offering synoptic and summary treatments of preestablished positions and themes, these essays engage with the ancient texts directly, focusing attention on concepts that emerge as urgent in the readings themselves and then clarifying those concepts interpretively. Indeed, this is a companion volume that takes a very serious and considered approach to its designated task—accompanying readers as they move through the most crucial passages of the infinitely rich and compelling texts of the ancients. Each essay provides a tutorial in close reading and careful interpretation. 

Because it offers foundational treatments of the most important works of ancient philosophy and because it, precisely by doing so, arrives at numerous original interpretive insights and suggests new directions for research in ancient philosophy, this volume should be of great value both to students just starting off reading the ancients and to established scholars still fascinated by philosophy's deepest abiding questions.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780810137868
ISBN-10: 0810137860
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Seria Rereading Ancient Philosophy


Notă biografică

SEAN D. KIRKLAND is an associate professor of philosophy at DePaul University and the author of The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues

ERIC SANDAY is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Kentucky and the author of A Study of Dialectic in Plato's "Parmenides." 
 

Cuprins

Introduction
Abbreviations
 
Early Greek Thinking: The Emergence of Philosophy
1. Phusis in Presocratic Thought: Seeking with Xenophanes - Robert Metcalf
2. Going With The Flow: Soul and Truth in Heraclitus - Drew Hyland
3. Justice, Change, and Knowledge: Parmenides and Melissus on Genesis and Natural Science - Rose Cherubin
4. “...As He Says in His Poetical Way”: Empedocles and Anaxagoras on the Motive Forces of Kosmos - Phil Hopkins
5. On Being a (W)hole: Aristophanes’ Contest with Socrates in Clouds - Damian Stocking
 
Classical Greek Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle
6. Erôs and Eris: Love and Strife in Ancient Greek Thought and Culture - John Russon
7. Plato and Aristotle: More than a Question of ‘Separate Forms’ - Francisco Gonzalez
8. Measure, Excess, and the All: To Agathon in Plato - Claudia Baracchi
9. In the Wake of Socrates: Impossible Memory - Walter Brogan
10. The Origins of Political Life in Plato’s Republic and Laws - George Harvey
11. Being in Late Plato - Eric Sanday
12. Aristotle on Physis: Analyzing the Inner Ambiguities and Transgression of Nature - Marjolein Oele
13. After Autopsy: An Introduction to Logos in Aristotle - Ömer Aygün
14. Developing Emotions: Aristotle’s Rhetoric and the Soul - Greg Recco
15. Hontina Tropon Gignetai Philos: Genesis vs. Alteration in the Forming of Friendships - John McCumber
16. The Political Context for Virtue: Aristotle’s Politics - Eve Rabinoff
17. Mimēsis: Plato and Aristotle on the Political Power of Tragedy - Patricia Fagan
 
The Hellenistic Schools
18. Ataraxia: Tranquility at the End - Pascal Massie
19. A Well-Ordered World: The Developing Idea of Kosmos in Later Greek Philosophy - Gina Zavota
20. Searching for the Why: Plotinus on Being and the One beyond Being - Michael Wiitala
 
List of Contributors
Index

Recenzii

"A Companion to Ancient Philosophy introduces ancient texts with a hermeneutic that is both historically grounded and contemporary. It contains twenty concise yet deep essays on issues fundamental to Greek thought by some leading scholars in continental philosophy. It is a fresh, insightful introduction to the essential questions of ancient Greek philosophy and why they are still alive for us today." —Marina McCoy, author of Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy

“A companion in the best sense of the word, Kirkland and Sanday’s volume invites us to tarry with and encounter anew the philosophers of antiquity. Careful, rigorous, even provocative, the essays collected here show us what it means to think with the ancients.” –Emanuela Bianchi, author of The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos

"Long overdue, A Companion to Ancient Philosophy showcases the work of top continental philosophers discussing fundamental themes, central philosophical terms, and methods in ancient Greek texts. It is both accessible and sophisticated, providing entrée to the texts and deepening readers’ understanding of them. The essays provide a guide for seeing the texts in their own historical and cultural context, often disrupting received and anachronistic narratives about these ancient texts’ meaning and significance." –Jill Gordon, author of Plato's Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death

Descriere

The essays collected in this volume provide an introduction to Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from the Pre-Socratics (6th and 5th century BCE) through Plato (429–347 BCE) and Aristotle (384–322 BCE) up to and including the Hellenistic period (322 BCE. to the third century CE).